Senior Research Analyst - Geopolitics (Africa) Central London (hybrid) Up to GBP 38,000 (depending on experience) - (posted Mar 25 2025)

Company: Spalding Goobey
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Job Spec: Our client is an independent research and insights consultancy with a focus on geopolitics, researching and investigating fragile states, opinion on the ground, and how current affairs affect everyday people and how governments communicate with them.

This is a superb opportunity for an ambitious, detail-oriented person with a strong interest and cultural understanding of the Africa region and experience in preparing and delivering information and analytical research products.

This position offers the opportunity to work on a top security project which integrates multiple data streams including opinion research, media monitoring, open-source insights, and qualitative research. The work covers some of the most important contemporary issues (security, democracy, development, defense etc.); this role will suit people with interests in international politics and backgrounds in research.

Candidates will grow and develop their research and intelligence expertise and there is some potential for foreign travel. Candidates must be resident in the UK or have the right to live and work in the UK.


Responsibilities include:

• Coordinating with multiple research suppliers, in a variety of countries, to collect quantitative and qualitative data.
• Managing multi-country reporting
• Design new research approaches and methodologies or update existing ones according to
• Compose and construct qualitative and quantitative data collection tools.
• Ensure relevant stakeholders and partners are engaged in research design and planning.
• Provide data analysis on primary and/or secondary data, ensuring that meaningful techniques are used to analyse the data collected.
• Report writing, QC and delivery of high-quality analytical products.
• Keeping abreast of relevant news in regions of study.

• High comfort level with quantitative data (using Excel/SPSS) and excellent writing skills are necessary.
• Excellent analytical skills, in particular with regards to quantitative data collection, management and analysis.
• Additional data analysis tools and software experienced (PowerBi, Media Monitoring tools, OSINT skills) are a plus.
• Preference given to candidates with Assessment, M&E, Analysis background; knowledge of the methods and techniques of monitoring and evaluation, including developing survey questionnaires, drawing a sample, and assessing the quality of resulting data is desirable.
• demonstrable knowledge of the politics, economics, and societies of Africa.

Who to contact: Email your CV (in confidence) to sga@spalding-goobey.co.uk, quoting the reference above, or contact Andrew Goobey, Andrew Mercer, Caroline Rock or Rebecca Meaton on 020 7287 7237

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